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PALMER STATION - SCIENCE SITREP - AUGUST 1992
S-014 ENERGETICS OF THE ADULTS AND LARVAE OF ANTARCTIC KRILL,
EUPHASIA SUPERBA. L.B. Quetin and R.M. Ross, P.I.'s,
University of California at Santa Barbara, California.
No personnel on station. Phytoplankton cultures are being maintained
by ASA Assistant Laboratory Supervisor, Maria Tarantino.
Phytoplankton cultures were kept in an illuminated incubator.
Biweekly checks of these cultures were done along with the transfer
of phytoplankton.
S-106 VLF REMOTE SENSING OF THUNDERSTORM AND RADIATION BELT
COUPLING TO THE IONOSPHERE. U.S. Inan, P.I., Stanford
University
No personnel on station; system is being run by ASA Science
Technician, Jim Fraser.
System functioned normally for the most part. Two errors caused
the loss of data. On 12 August the Betamax was improperly set to
record and no data was recorded on it for that day. On 28 August
there was a tension error on the digital tape and no data was
recorded on it for that day.
There are currently on station 126 written digital data tapes and
107 written Betamax data tapes.
S-254 CHLORINE - AND BROMINE - CONTAINING GASES IN THE ANTARCTIC.
R.A.Rasmussen, P.I., Oregon state University.
No S-254 personnel are on station; the project is being monitored
and maintained by the station physician.
A total of 36 clean air samples have been archived for retrograde
for S-254. There are currently 41 empty canisters on station.
S-257 GEOPHYSICAL MONITORING FOR CLIMATE CONTROL (GMCC). J.T.
Peterson and L.Waterman, P.I.'s, NOAA
No S-257 personnel are on station; the project is being monitored
and maintained by the station physician.
A total of 30 air samples have been archived for retrograde for
S-257. There are currently 34 empty canisters on station.
S-275 UM/DOE ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING PROGRAM AT PALMER STATION.
T. Snowdon, University of Miami; C. Sanderson/N. Chui,
EML/DOE N.Y.
No personnel on station; system is being run by ASA Science
Technician, Jim Fraser.
The system continued to operate with normal weekly schedule of
calibration, background and sample counts, with one sample filter
being exposed for the duration of the week.
On Station there are currently 14 exposed filters, one (1) filter
being exposed, three (3) exposed blank filter, one (1) prepared
blank filter, and one (1) data disk currently being used to log
data. There are 57 blank filters.
T-312 TERASCAN SATELLITE IMAGING SYSTEM. R. Whritner, P.I.,
Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA
No personnel on station; system is being run by ASA Science
Technician, Jim Fraser.
The required satellite collection schedule continued with three
(3) NOAA satellite passes. Two (2) DMSP F-10 satellite passes
were also collected daily. Passes were recorded digitally on 8mm
video tape.
Ice images were processed for the R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER as
requested. The settings for the modem port that had been used
for this were reset during the July power failure have not been
able to be reset yet. An alternate, albeit slower, port is being
used to transfer the images to comms.
There are 22 full 8mm "video" tapes of collected passes on
station and one current tape almost complete.
T-313 UV MONITORING EXPERIMENT. C. Booth, Biospherical
Instruments.
No personnel on station; system is being run by ASA Science
Technician, Jim Fraser.
Daily data packages were sent to Biospherical via E-Mail. Log
book entries were transmitted to Biospherical via E-Mail weekly.
Absolute calibration scans was performed on 17 and 30 August.
Scans on 1600z 28 August and 1600z and 1700z on 29 August were
aborted because of high PMT voltages due to the increasing
sunlight. The PMT voltages were adjusted downwards.
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